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Optimal Data Selection: An Online Distributed View
Mariel Werner, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Stephen Bates, Michael I. Jordan
The blessing of ubiquitous data also comes with a curse: the communication, storage, and labeling of massive, mostly redundant datasets. We seek to solve this problem at its core, collecting only valuable data and throwing out the rest via submodular maximization. Specifically, we develop algorithms for the online and distributed version of the problem, where data selection occurs in an uncoordinated fashion across multiple data streams. We design a general and flexible core selection routine for our algorithms which, given any stream of data, any assessment of its value, and any formulation of its selection cost, extracts the most valuable subset of the stream up to a constant factor while using minimal memory. Notably, our methods have the same theoretical guarantees as their offline counterparts, and, as far as we know, provide the first guarantees for online distributed submodular optimization in the literature. Finally, in learning tasks on ImageNet and MNIST, we show that our selection methods outperform random selection by 5-20%.
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